Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> writes: > The problem is that all those missing factors are destined to go > un-missing — and then what? We can't base our rules on biological > exceptionalism.
Why not? The entirety of law, politics, and civilization is designed by humans, for humans. Free software is a movement of humans that attempts to provide other humans with specific freedoms and guarantees around the software they use. I don't work on free software because I want to make something easier for Google's LLM. I work on free software because I want to give freedom and control to human beings. We're the ones building the system. Why should we not design the system for us, to help us, to make our lives better? The LLMs are by and large the creations of corporations because they have collective resources that dwarf the resources of nearly all individual humans. Where this line of reasoning goes in practice is to (further) create a legal system that treats corporations and their tools as the most important actors and humans as secondary material for corporations to consume. We already have too much of that. We *absolutely* should base our rules on what's best for human beings, not corporate constructs. That is the entire point of the free software movement. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
